Car-record.



MD o'mER A. R. SMITH.

CAR RECORD. I APPLICATION FILED o T.24.1914.

Patented June 11,: 1918.

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INFORMATION ALBERT B. SMITH, OF- BfiLLows rants, VERMONT.

i To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. SMITH, a

citizen of the United States,residing at Bel lows Falls, in the countyof WVindham and State of Vermont, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovementin Car-Records, of which the following is a full,clear, andexact description. I

Movements of freight and other cars by railroad companies have to berecorded in detail by station agents and others, and many blanks, insheet and book form, are used for making these records, singly and inmultiple, including duplication toa large extent and the consumption ofmuch time and labor. Y Details of such movements are necessary not only;in the operating departments, but in the accounting departments as well.Frequently in the settlement of claims made bycons gnors andconsrgnees,these records must be produced in court, and in those cases wheretherecords are in book form-containing the records of many cases other thanthat in dispute, the railroad companies and their agents are deprived ofthe convenient useof these bookswhile inthe custody ofthe courts, sothat they are subjected to great inconvenience and. delay in thetransaction of business with other patrons. V i

The present invention is designed to simplify the keeping of suchrecords, and to make them singly or individually available in thesettlement of claims, and generally to improve the system of car recordsby the use of a loose leaf or individual form, on which the entries areappropriately classified, and

which may be madein duplicate, or wholly or partly in multiple, so thatthe agent at the point of departure may obtain a record of car movementsand advise the agent at the pointof destination, or elsewhere, andobtain an org-inal for the main oflicewithout resorting to theduplications or repetitions commonly employed at present.

The invention consists of a car record constructed and arrangedto meetthe foregoing and otherrequirements of railway operation as I willproceed now to explain and finally claim;

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the ;invention,m in;theseveral figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1is a plan view, on. a reduced scale, showing a; blank by which allof therecord oAa-Bnconn.

Specification of Letterslatent. Patented June 11, 1918; Applicationfiled October 24, 1914. Serial no. 868,497.

made at onetime may be obtained in part in Without thereby limiting theinvention to such form, I will proceed to describe it as illustrated.The drawing may represent, a blank for a. folder, and, for. example,eleven by four and a half inchesfin size, ruled and printed to containthe necessary or desired entries concerning a freightcar from any givenpoint to another or to ultimate destination. The printed matter may besmall enough to leave room on each blankspace to receive the manuscriptmatter, or this printed matter may be of such character and so disposedin the spaces that it may be written over in manuscript without oblit--crating or concealing. it, or otherwise renderingtitillegible, andwithout interfering with the legibility of. the manuscript matter.Thetransverse space 1 at the top is toreceive the name of the railroadcompany using the form. This space is delimited by a transverse line orlines 2, and near the bottom of the blankis another delimiting line 3,leaving t the bottom of the blank a space 4: which may be left blank, ormay be ruled to receive, as indicated in the title, any data notspecifically provided for. in the ruled portions intervening between thetop and bottom.. A main longitudinal heavy or black face line 5 dividesthe space between thetopand bottom into two main divisions of. unequalwidth, and these two main'divisions are subdivid ed by the transverselines 6..

As indicated, the division 7 bounded by the left-hand. edge of theblank011 one side andthe longitudinal line 5 on the other and the lines 2.and 6, is ruledoff into appropriate spaces with a printed keydestination to indicate theownership or shipping point of the car, andthe kind, initial and nunr her? ofthecar. Next following below is aspace to. receive manuscript'data as to whence the car was transferrednext following are spaces on'the, same line for the namevof the. stationissuing therecord. and the date; next followin below.is..a.. space tocontain themameof Fhewonsignee and another subjacent space for a secondconsignee; and next below a space to receive the name of the stationfrom which the car. emanated, and ,next, :belowa three dongitndir; nallyseparated spaces on the same line to receive data as to the contents andWeight of the car and the railroad charges on the same; and. next belowfour more or less spaces, the last ,of which is di vide dlongitudinallyfor information as to the, con'signor and the contents, and weight? ofthe car.- Following down onthis side of the formisa division Sruledtransversely and longitudinally into two sub-di visions separated by aheavy line 9, in which data as to incoming i111): and'ioutgoing (Out)cars may be notedpandthesertwo columns have arrangedhelow them longi-'tudinally and transversely.di'yided -spaces for data as to the railroadtransporting the car and the consignee for both. the incoming. and theoutgoingcar, and below this are, longitudinally and "transversely ruledspaces, for data to charges for car service (C. "8.), and forsWitcl1i1ig,(SW for .ferry (F1), for creditf1(Gr.), to applyonvunloading a car in accordance with average agreement rules inforoebyrailroads, and debit (Dr.) on the-same account, and finally for.notation of any excess (Ex) charges. v

To the right .of the main longitudinal, di-- vision line, 5 and betweenlines 2 and .6, data? time and train number spaces 10,511" and. 12 areprovide'd'in ,one;trans-. verse block for incoming (In) and. outgoing(Out) cars, and for recording the time of gross detention (Gross .detnY)of a car. Below these blanks, is a main space 13 for. the reception ofnumbers from the checksheet," when theforms are used for Warehouserecordsu As indicatedsthis space is ruledtransversely and divided intotwolongitudinal columns Hand 15.underIn and Out'for, incoming andoutgoing cars, with" adthird jparalle'l column 16 containing. the

. printed item Straight ;demurrage,"Average agreement Public delivery,and Pri-, vatesidings, and also the character ofxthe, contents of thecar, Whether,infiammable, explosive?acid? or perishable, and at thefoot; of the name .column a space for. rush' order when ,the, car is tobe so forwarded, All these items as used are to. be noted. in manuscriptcolumns 14 and 15.

Next below isa.transverse space 17 indexed Carded 'to receive notice ofadvice by postcard to consignee, and.,used to complete' the datahpthespaces at theleft.

Next below are two longitudinal columns 18 and. 19, the spaces in whichare .to receive appropriate marks corresponding to the printed'mattertherein. The various items of. 'printed. matter. ,would seem to be,self-explanatory, only two of them requiring definition, namely:.,Consctive meaning con structive and C 'N standing for correc- Q iii.

The blank form may be used with loose carbon sheets for obtainingcarbon, copies in any usual Way, and to any desired extent; or when theform is made as a folder, the front sheet may have its back carbonizedfor copy: ing purposes, as indicatedfat 209011 theturned over portion,Fig, 2., Furthermore, ln order to meet the requlrements ofjpostcardnotification, a I postcard 21- having on it rule'd. spaces with properindicia corresponding with a portion. of the record sheet suflicient toidentify the particular car for Which the sheet is used,; as shown in"Fig. 2,

may be provided jto receive a carbon copy of the entries as made, and insuch case an additional carbonsheetor other carbon surface may be usedso asto insure the copying of the. entry on the second sheetgandthen-after allof the entries aremade', the carbon sheet 22 may bereversed so thatth'e address face of the card 'may beinscribed andsimultaneously a the inscription- ,placed upon the back of the secondsheet,- as inch cated in Fig. 3.

In some casesthe placed (between the record -sheet1 and the postcard so.as to duplicate on the postcard the entriesbeing madeon theqrecord. Inorder to obtain upon the. original Sheena duphcateof the address to beplacednponcard imposition to receive the entries as they are being madeuponjthegrecord sheet- 1 The handling of,freight*byurailroads isgoverned by statute law, and the railroad companies may, and. usually-dohave, addi tional items, respecting the movements "of cars peculiar totheir own accounting systerns, ,and all: of these items. may be;;collected upon forms of the -character 'herein set forth in. a compactstate, greatly facilitat ing and expediting the record-ing'offthe dataand Y putting it in simple and convenient shape for subsequent handlingboth at the station of --use ,and for the "main ofiic'e, and so that asalready stated, eaeh-recordis in backofthe sheet. maybe leftun'carbonized, and a carbon sheet" dividualized and is valuable as suchin case of litigation or for use outside of the office or station.

A main feature of the invention, however, in addition to thecondensationand simplification of the making of the records, is that theform dispenses with a large number of forms of very much greater size,and one or more blanks in book form, and the office equipment for filingthese blanks or forms is rendered very much simpler and adaptable forready reference.

Under the facts stated, it is obvious that changes in the details of theform or blank are permissible within the scope of the invention hereindisclosed and claimed, to suit changing conditions of law and localrequirements and to meet special requirements of particular railroads.

What I claim is:-

1. A car record, comprising a folded sheet, having a plurality oflongitudinally arranged parallel lines forming columnar divisions, aplurality of longitudinal and transverse lines subdividing thesedivisions into indicated spaces, one of the spaces containing a keydesignation whereby a car may be identified from its starting point toits destination, and other contiguous spaces to receive the particularsas to the train of which the car forms a part, the name of the placewhere the record is made, the name of the consignee and the name of theplace from which the car Was received, and other contiguous spacesmarked to receive from time to time classified items as to the contentsof the car and the charges incident to its transportation while enroute, the spaces being systematically arranged in related or- Copies ofder and the items therein identifiable with the car described in thesaid key designation, all of the folds of the sheetbeing substantiallyalike for duplicating the record. 2. A car record, comprising a foldedsheet, having heavy conspicuous longitudinal lines dividing it intocolumns, transverse lines intersecting the longitudinal lines andthereby forming divisional spaces, longitudinal and transverse linessubdividing the divisional spaces into smaller spaces, the spaces havingfixed headings to indicate the kind or character of data to be enteredin the spaces and one of the spaces containing a key designation wherebyacar may be identified from its starting point to its destination, andanother contiguous space indicated to receive particulars as to thetrain of which the car forms a part, the name of the place where therecord is made, the name of the consignee and the name of the place fromwhich the car was received, and other spaces indicated to receive fromtime to time classified items as to the contents of the car and thecharges incident to its transportation while en route, all of the foldsof the sheet being substantially alike for duplicating the record, and apostcard adapted to be inserted between the folds and containing caridentifying means and arranged to receive an address which issimultaneously inscribed on it and the record.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day ofOctober, A. D.

1914. ALBERT B. SMITH.

Witnesses:

WARNER A. GRAHAM, JENNIE E. HAYES.

this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing theCommissioner of Patento.

Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,268,889, grantedJune 11,

1918, upon the application of Albert R. Smith, of Bellows Falls,Vermont, for an improvement in CanRecords, an error appears in theprinted specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 104,for the word destination read designation; and that the said LettersPatent should be read with this correction therein that the same mayconform to the record of the csise in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 9th day of July, A. D. 1918.

[SEAL] W. H. CLAY,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. Ci. 1l19.

